Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-too-friendly reception, the pair decide... See full summary »

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Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-too-friendly reception, the pair decide to move into an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. They are soon joined in their new home by Joycie, another town outcast with a shady past. While the three manage to start a rather happy life together, they soon find that others in the town strongly disapprove of their living arrangements. Written by
Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

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This movie may not sound much, judging by it's title, story, and video cover, but you are really mislead here. Here's another case, of 'Give this movie a chance'. A down on their luck, duo, the great Bill Kerr, and his younger cohort, a much innocent John Jarratt, way before his killing days as Mick Taylor in the Wolf Creeks, have just swaggered on into town at the dislike of the locals, including chief cop (Tony Barry). They're swindlers running card games, and playing pool, these hobos have to make it somehow, where they're soon run out of town. So what they do? They settle, out of town. Luck comes their way, not just in the form of a nicely shaped, young floosy/barmaid (Liddy Clark) who befriends them, but they come across an abandoned ramshackled hut, they now call home, after giving it a makeover, where we have one nice cosy family. Certain romances blossom within this group, too, but the locals aren't amused, and become really fired up, and you can pretty much guess the unfolding of the story-I mean you're not that dumb. This is one of those fine overlooked Aussie films, with Kerr, great, who's still with us, (obviously he looks after himself, wisely, as seen in a lot of his characters, he plays. Jarratt, the short fused one, has a cute idiocy about him, and makes the film, fun to watch. You'll see why he's one the underrated Aussie actors. I loved the young teen girl, trying to come onto cop (Barry) in the pub, paying him out. This film has much the same end as High Rolling with our three down on their luck souls, walking off, proving when you're back on the bottom again, you just have to get back up again, and not look back.

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